The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-08-20
A CHAPTER TO coLoRED PEOPLE

A CHAPTER TO coLoRED PEOPLE.
1t Is not often that any man
writes to you through the paper,
and fear many of you do not
read the GAZETTE. / wish to tell
you of your greatest friends and
OF your greatest enemies.
You have heard much talk OF
capital and no doubt you wish you
had some of this goodly thing
called capital. You have a very
fine capital. Every man who is
well, has good capital always in
demand. II is his labor. Now
If you will use this to advantage,
you will do well anywhere. But
you must work at one thing. You
must put your capital in that one
thing; not work a little on farm
and then hire out little and run
about great deal, for every day
poor man loses is just that much
capital thrown away. You must
learn to work by yourself and
you must pursue work for the
profit. not for the fun, that is in
it. Workings injure you all more
than you suppose. for a man can
always do more work in his own
field than'he can in his nelghbors
field.
How many days do you lose in
a year? Did it ever occur to you
that every one of these work days
lost, represents fifty cents, and If
you lose fifty days in a year, that
it is twenty-five dollars in cash
you have lost.
A crop needs all your time.
You must not think you can leave
your crop every now and then to
go out and work for wages, for
every day SO lost tells on you at
gathering time, for while you are
gone, the grass is getting hold,
and weak pony and a boy can
stir up little grass, but you know
that 10 July when grass gets large
and spreads out, that a big man
and a big boy can hardly kill it.
You must also learn to work to
an advantage. Work your crop
when the ground Is in good condi-
ton, even if there is a rail-split-
ting or a big meeting running in
the neighborhood. When you
work, always work to advantage,
don't fool away time hoeing, when
you shodld be plowing, and re-
member if it gets too wet to work,
instead of running off to town,
cut your briars, clean up fence
rows, and chop around stumps,
and work regularly, and not in a
burst or rip. Kill your grass when
it is little and just remember
please, that one acre of ground
well tended is better than four
acres tended at.
Who is it that prospers best
among the people around you?
Is it the man who has in a heap of
land, oi him who tends his land
the best? You know who it IS.
My friends learn to thin corn, if
you don't you will make heap Of
nubbins you cant throw In a
wagon on windy day, because
the wind will blow them away.
Hard work is at the bottom of all
success. Attention to busines.
creates business and keeps it alive
No business will work itself.
Three weeks Christmas and then
one more week TO hunt a hon Q.
then two weeks off and on, at
workings, then weeks spree on
fourth of July, and two more
week $ at blg meeting with every
half-Saturday during the year,
makes a big drain on Y ur capital.
The poor mans wealth lies in
his money. If he squanders this
he squanders his all, and he has
nothing left. When you get up
in the morning let it be at home.
Fairly rising and early breakfast
Is necessary, Running about at
night, you inherit from the old